The [Downtown] Metropolitan Redevelopment Area is a safe, vibrant activity center for the Four Corners region where people can live, work and play as a community.

The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency is the catalyst for creating renewed energy and vitality in the area it serves through plan development and implementation.

The New Mexico Metropolitan Redevelopment Code provides cities in New Mexico with the powers to correct conditions in areas or neighborhoods within municipalities which "substantially inflict or arrest the sound and orderly development" within the city. These powers can help reverse an area's decline and stagnation; however, the City may only use these powers within designated Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas.